{"id":134471,"date":"2015-07-14T16:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=134471"},"modified":"2015-07-14T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:45:37","slug":"man-city-complete-raheem-sterling-transfer-from-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=134471","title":{"rendered":"Man City complete Raheem Sterling transfer from Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Manchester City have signed Liverpool and England forward Raheem Sterling for a fee that could reach \u00a349m.<\/p>\n<p>City will pay an initial \u00a344m for the 20-year-old, making him the most expensive English player ever.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling had asked to leave Anfield and was the subject of two bids from City in June, both of which were rejected.<\/p>\n<p>City boss Manuel Pellegrini described Sterling, who has signed a five-year deal, as &#8220;one of the best attacking players in world football&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling, who is only behind Gareth Bale on the list of most expensive British players, will wear the number seven shirt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46070\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/84269578_fasdf.jpg\" alt=\"_84269578_fasdf\" width=\"795\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pellegrini added: &#8220;He is a young player with outstanding ability, and I am sure the Manchester City fans will be very excited about seeing him in action for the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The England international had been under contract at Liverpool until 2017 but turned down a \u00a3100,000-a-week deal to extend his five-year stay at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling joined Liverpool from QPR in February 2010 for an initial fee of \u00a3600,000, and the Loftus Road club will receive 20% of his fee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"data-table-outer\">\n<table class=\"data-table\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"100%\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"heading\">\n<th class=\"left first\"><strong>Most expensive British players<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\"><strong>\u00a385.3m<\/strong>&#8211; Gareth Bale (Tottenham to Real Madrid, 2013)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row2\">\n<td class=\"left first\"><strong>\u00a349m-<\/strong> Raheem Sterling (Liverpool to Manchester City, 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\"><strong>\u00a335m-<\/strong> Andy Carroll (Newcastle to Liverpool, 2011)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row2\">\n<td class=\"left first\"><strong>\u00a330m-<\/strong> Rio Ferdinand (Leeds to Manchester United, 2002)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\"><strong>\u00a327m-<\/strong> Luke Shaw (Southampton to Manchester United, 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row2\">\n<td class=\"left first\"><strong>\u00a327m-<\/strong> Wayne Rooney (Everton to Manchester United, 2004)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\"><strong>\u00a326m-<\/strong> James Milner (Aston Villa to Manchester City, 2010)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several former Liverpool players have criticised the player since he told manager Brendan Rodgers and chief executive Ian Ayre he wanted to leave the club this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Former captain Steven Gerrard said he was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; in the England international.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study ranked Sterling as the most valuable young player in Europe, ahead of Paris St-Germain defender Marquinhos and Manchester United&#8217;s recently acquired Dutch forward Memphis Depay.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have signed Liverpool and England forward Raheem Sterling for a fee that could reach \u00a349m. City will pay an initial \u00a344m for the 20-year-old, making him the most expensive English player ever. Sterling had asked to leave Anfield and was the subject of two bids from City in June, both of which were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":134472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-134471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}